Feature by Peter Dobey Taking its cue from Proust, Krowswork’s ‘Digital Madeleine, Or Video-Time is Never Lost or Past’ invites the viewer to explore his or her own relationship to that great adversary …

In case you haven’t noticed, there is a new bridge in town. “The New Bay Bridge” at Vessel Gallery, Oakland, features the work of two artists who approach the structure quite differently. John Ruszel creates …

“Heightened Subjectivity” is a group show at Interface Gallery in Oakland featuring recent work by Claire Colette, Teresa Baker and Lana Williams. Through titles that give clues to broader issues, these abstract works express the …

As a spectator entering a gallery or museum, anticipation of aesthetic elation is internalized. Once upon these works, viewing an interesting something or other creates a silent, intangible collision of intellect and emotion. The …

Opening tomorrow, September 26th at Johansson Projects is “Formalities”, a two-person exhibition featuring works by Dan Grayber and Steuart Pittman, in which unanticipated structures and familiar, seemingly rigorous forms are born from aesthetic impulse …

The winners of this year’s SFMOMA SECA (Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art) Award are Josh Faught, Jonn Herschend, Zarouhie Abdalian and David Wilson. Each artist took the opportunity to do site-specific work wherein …

Jennie Ottinger’s current solo show “Members Only” at Johansson Projects in Oakland is full of disturbing little malevolent children. Ottinger’s work humorously examines the dark side of social grouping. Signifiers such as pins, uniforms, …

To all you disbelievers who thought a cohesive body of work about squirrels and hunting couldn’t possibly exist, shame on you. In “Squirrel Season” at Mercury Twenty gallery in Oakland, Julie Alvarado explores what it …

Opening Friday, August 2nd at Johansson Projects is “Members Only”, a solo exhibition featuring new paintings by Jennie Ottinger. Jennie Ottinger grew up in a small town in Massachusetts, where Catholic rules and rituals …

Opening tonight at the Kala Art Institute is “Where Water Comes Together With Other Water – Residency Projects: New Work by 2012-2013 Kala Fellows”, featuring new work by Kala’s 2012-2013 Fellowship artists. The exhibition …

By Ashley Stull The 1960s and 70s were the championing era for initiatives that localized artist efforts outside of the institution. Conceptual Art publications, Land Art, Fluxus and other practices alternative to …

Mathew Zefeldt confronts the remaking of classical ideas at the juncture between the original and the replica. The heads of Greco/Roman sculpture are subjects for most of the work. Through a painstaking process of …

Tonight at S.H.E.D. Projects in Oakland is the 4th day of an ongoing program called “THE GOLDEN HOUR P.M.” organized by Ian Dolton-Thornton and Emma Spertus who are both artists from Real Time and Space …

Nicole Eisenman’s show at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive presents a fundamental reshaping of a beguiling, simple word that we use on a daily basis. After viewing a stunning selection of …

“Just Make Something” is a group show with a challenging concept: invite curatorial teams to create art together. The work inhabits an indistinguishable space between maker and curator, studio space and gallery display, private …